This past weekend saw a lot of colourful uniforms, lots of noise and smelly smoke from muskets and cannon, lots of shouting, and in spite of what you might think, lots of fun entertainment at Stoney Creek, Ontario. Re-enactors dressed… »
Highlights / Year: 2013
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Coroners to study gender identity and teen suicide link
Sexual orientation and gender identity appear to be linked to youth suicides and the coroner’s office in the province of Ontario wants to find out more. As part of its mandate to recommend ways to prevent death, the coroner’s office… »
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Tax office mails private records to wrong person
Canada’s privacy commissioner is investigating the Canada Revenue Agency for the latest leak of taxpayers’ confidential information. Danielle Baxter had asked the agency to send information about her deceased daughter so she could fill out a final income tax form.… »
Homesteader Fest in Manitoba
The European pioneers, also called homesteaders, who first began to settle Canada, had to learn a lot of entirely new skills to survive the harsh conditions. Just some of those skills included for example, learning to make their own soap,… »
Youth suicide spreads further than previously thought
Suicide has long been thought to be contagious among youth and now a new study reveals who is affected and for how long. Those who have heard about a suicide at school are more likely to think about or try… »
Arts & Entertainment, Highlights
– Miss Montreal- the newest crime thriller in the series by Howard Shrier
On this edition , Howard Shrier comes into studio to talk about the fourth and newest book in his detecitive crime thriller series. In Miss Montreal, private eye, Jonah Geller goes back to his roots in the Canadian city of… »
Economy, International, Politics
Politics Today – June 2, 2013
On this edition of Politics Today RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda focuses on the continuing Senate expense scandal “Senategate” and who knew what about a personal cheque made by the Chief of Staff of Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper to a Conservative… »
The LINK Online
Welcome to edition #49. This week we have the full team once again, Lynn Desjardins, and Wojtek Gwiazda join me, Marc Montgomery as we present some of the many stories we found of particular interest this week. Canada’s Chief Electoral… »
More cougar attack incidents in Canada
Cougar attacks seem to be in the news this month, earlier this month in the west coast province of British Columbia a young man managed to scare off a cougar who was attacking his dog, and narrowly missed a serious… »
Health, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Diabetes rate increasing faster among Canadians of Chinese origin
Diabetes rates are climbing precipitously in Canada, but much more so among people of Chinese origin according to a new study. The incidence of diabetes increased 15 times between 1996 and 2005 in that group, but rose only 24 per… »
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